Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Since the January announcement
that Charlottesville City Councilman Kristen Szacos had proposed an ordinance
change that would eliminate the Lee-Jackson City Holiday in Charlottesville, we
have shared information about the rich Confederate history of the city.
One of my favorite topics is the presentation of a battle flag to the men
of Stuart's Horse Artillery, hand sewn by the ladies of Charlottesville by the
Mayor and City Council of Charlottesville, after they managed to turn back the
Yankee army, against 5 to 1 odds, and save the city from destruction during the
Battle of Rio Hill on February 29, 1864. There is a good summary
here:

Sharpstown, Texas, a mid-size city near
Houston, decided not to renew its contract with the local police
department back in 2012. To replace them, the town hired a private
security firm, SEAL Security Solutions, to keep the area safe.

The results have been remarkable. “Since we’ve been in there, an
independent crime study that they’ve had done [indicates] we’ve reduced
the crime by 61% in just 20 months,” said James Alexander of SEAL. He
attributes the success to a larger force of officers and more time spent
on patrol.

The new contract also saves local taxpayers some $200,000 per year,
as SEAL’s services are cheaper than the costs of maintaining the old
constabulary. Another benefit, as The Free Thought Project points out, is that private security firms do not have government officers’ near immunity from legal consequences of misconduct and abuse, meaning they’re more likely to be respectful of people’s rights and property.

To shoot down a drone, LaRue Tactical packaged a pre-sighted and
disassembled PredatOBR rifle kit…then dropped it not once, but twice,
from an aircraft. The first attempt bounced out of camera range, so the
package was dropped a second time. Impact was onto a rocky central
Texas terrain bouncing high into the air.

Acting as a friendly
ground-asset in a hostile area, Todd Hodnett then retrieved and
reassembled the 16" 7.62 LaRue PredatOBR with NightForce 5-25 ATACR
riflescope (mounted in a LaRue LT111 QD scope mount). Todd then moved
into hasty position and with the first pull of the trigger, shot down a
DJI Inspire drone hovering at 203 yards. Todd then continued to engage
several steel targets out to 437 yards until all simulated threats were
eliminated.

LaRue Tactical is well known for delivering
hyper-accurate, highly-reliable AR-based rifles. To see more about LaRue
Rifles, and their other fine products, visit: www.LaRue.com.

Sweet Briar College — located near Lynchberg, Virginia — will close
"as a result of insurmountable financial challenges," the school said in
a statement.

Sweet Briar administrators cited several trends that informed the
decision to close, including the declining number of female students
interested in all-women colleges and the dwindling number of students
overall interested in small, rural liberal arts colleges.

Battles between the corporate allies of hollow nation-states and the
gangs and tribes of black globalization are at the center of this
century's epochal war. That war will eventually put the senior
executives of US tech and financial companies in the crosshairs. Here's
a good example. Over the weekend, ISIS threatened the life of Jack
Dorsey, a co-founder and Chairman of Twitter. Why?

Twitter, at the
urging of the US government, has been shutting down the accounts of ISIS
supporters for months. So, ISIS supporters responded by making a threat with a nifty graphic:

We told you from the beginning it’s
not your war, but you didn't get it and kept closing our accounts on
Twitter, but we always come back. But when our lions come and take your
breath, you will never come back to life.

The Obama administration last week proposed a ban on bullets used in AR-15 semi-automatic rifles.

The
AR-15 is the most popular rifle in America, and often a focus of
controversy over gun rights.

This time, the controversy it not the gun,
but one of the types of ammunition used in it.

The ATF is asking
to classify the so-called "green tip" bullets now considered for sport
shooting as armor piercing rounds, posing a threat to law enforcement.
This would make them illegal to buy, make or sell.

Justin Jones
with the Pitt County Sheriff's Office said often times the AR-15 isn't
the type of weapon they encounter or worry about.

"We're always concerned about something we can't see. As far as the rifle goes, it's pretty big, we can see it," Jones said.

Obama also instructed his media allies to help federalize policing,
and to sideline the critics of centralized policing rules. “I expect our
friends in the media to really focus on what’s in this report and pay
attention to it,” he instructed.

Visiting Israel for the first time
several decades ago, I was shocked at being told to report any packages
left on buses or park benches because these might be terrorist bombs. To
Americans, this then seemed almost unimaginable.

In the wake of 9-11, we in the West are all Israelis now.

We need to wake up and smell the danger that threatens us.

This week, a modern Paul Revere arrived in Washington, D.C., to warn us that “The terrorists are coming” to cities we call home.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows this from hard
experience as a battle-wounded commando; brother of commando Yonatan
killed rescuing skyjacked Israelis in Entebbe, Uganda; and leader of an
American ally that faces incessant terrorist attacks.

Jacob Berry, a 22-year-old homeschool graduate from Morgantown, West
Virginia, recently encountered a sudden jolt in his career plans.

Homeschooled by his father, Dr. Nathan Berry, and his mother, Mrs.
Cynthia Berry, who holds a lifetime teacher’s license in Missouri, Jacob
graduated from high school in 2012. Upon graduation, Jacob worked in
retail and construction before deciding that information technology was
the career for him. He applied to and was accepted at West Virginia’s
Bridgeport Junior College this past fall.
It was the perfect choice for him: he could continue working and take classes.

“Bridgeport is a great junior college,” Jacob said. “The schedules
are amazing and the teachers really helpful. I definitely enjoyed the
atmosphere there.”

Diploma Issues

During the application process the family met with admissions staff
and informed them that Jacob had been homeschooled. Jacob’s enrollment
agreement, signed by the college president, Ms. Sharron Stephens, even
acknowledged his homeschooling background.

His enrollment completed, Jacob eagerly began his studies and
finished his first two courses, psychology and Introduction to
Computers, in January, receiving A’s in both.

As a requirement for Student Success Strategies, one of his next
courses, Jacob met with President Stephens. In the course of the
interview, Ms. Stephens rediscovered that Jacob was homeschooled and
took issue with his education.

A Justice Department investigation found sweeping patterns of racial
bias within the Ferguson, Missouri, police department – with officers
routinely discriminating against blacks by using excessive force,
issuing petty citations and making baseless traffic stops, according to
law enforcement officials familiar with the report.

The report, which could be released as soon as Wednesday, marks the
culmination of a months-long investigation into a police department that
federal officials have described as troubled and that commanded
national attention after one of its officers shot and killed an unarmed
black man, 18-year-old Michael Brown, last summer.

Every IT-savvy commenter and coblogger was saying that
all of these emails are periodically backed up to tapes which are always
available.

The IRS kept claiming they weren’t. They claimed they were lost, or missing, or “recycled” every six months.

People not in the IRS kept saying “Bullshit, the point of the tapes is to keep them forever.”

So yes. This new investigator, Mr. Camus, set out to find the tapes
which the IRS head swore under oath did not exist and he found them. In two weeks.

This suggests the very real policy that multiple hands at the IRS
deliberately lied to Congress in order to end Congress’ search for the
tapes, and that they further did not do the minimum due diligence
required by law in cooperating with a federal subpoena: As Mr. Camus
states, when he went to the storage facility in West Virginia, which is
“exactly where you’d expect [the tapes] to be,” the IT people there
found them immediately, and furthermore said that no one had ever before asked for the tapes.

Oh, I wouldn’t exactly count on that. After all, these are employees
of an out-of-control bureaucracy in an illegitimate government–they lie
as a matter of course, without the slightest fear of repercussion or
reprisal. Thus:

The gun trade is expected to have a more favorable
year—even though estimates on its size vary widely—after shooting blanks
in 2014.

One proxy for U.S. firearms demand is the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System,
which posted an 8.4 percent year-over-year increase in activity in
January. That figure was the second-highest January on record for the
16-year-old system and marked the fourth consecutive monthly increase of
year-to-year growth in the FBI's numbers since September 2013.

The national debt now exceeds 18 trillion dollars, almost half added
during the Barack Obama administration alone, and is increased by three
to four billion every day and neither major political party nor network
is talking about it as a national emergency. Who is slated to repay
this crippling, gigantic burden—our children—the unborn or those too
young to have objected? The ones who laid it on their backs, by
spending what they did not have, are now dead, dying, or retiring.

Well, reportedly one of those “new debt slaves,” the so-called
millennials, voiced her complaint five years ago, November 18, 2010 with
a solution to the problem. When she was born 21 years prior, in 1989,
the national debt was only around 2.7 trillion dollars, said then to be
crippling and gigantic. In an article entitled “Put me in Charge,”
first appearing in the Waco Tribune Herald (author unnamed), she
outlined four controversial solutions. They follow:

“Put me in charge of food stamps. I’d get rid of Lone Star cards; no
cash for Ding Dongs or Ho Ho’s, just money for 50-pound bags of rice and
beans, blocks of cheese and all the powdered milk you can haul away. If
you want steak and frozen pizza, then get a job.

“Put me in charge of Medicaid. The first thing I’d do is to get women
Norplant birth control implants or tubal ligations. Then, we’ll test
recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine. If you want to reproduce or
use drugs, alcohol, or smoke, then get a job.

Remembrance

Winners: Navy Cross Nguyen Van Kiet & MOH Thomas R. Norris This week’s Medal of Honor hero is one of a handful of Navy SEALs awarded the MOH in the Vietnam War. Norris snuck behind enemy lines with a South Vietnamese Navy petty officer rescued two downed pilots in 1972–when most of our resources had been pulled from the country. Interesting to note that later year, Norris was himself rescued by another SEAL Michael E. Thornton.More @ Medal of Honor Roll Call

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.